As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

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.