There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

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

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.