O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! . . . Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword Fallen Kosciusco.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

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

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book