The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.