I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.