Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.