A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order