Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.