Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

The groves were God's first temples.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.