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

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

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

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.

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.