Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear