And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

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

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.