Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.

Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.