The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.

Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.