It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.