A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

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

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.

I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

Is not thy home among the flowers?

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.