Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Grief is itself a medicine.

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!