Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.