A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

The English Bible,-a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.