He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

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.

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.