"Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic …"

"Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam."

"Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day."

"Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to on…"

"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life o…"

"If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dr…"

"In old times, the settlers used to be astounded by the inroads of the northern Indians, coming down upon them from th…"

"Let us forget the other names of American statesmen, that have been stamped upon these hills, but still call the loft…"

"It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide—but so quickly close again!"

"By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, stree…"