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

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

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

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

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.