I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.