Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.