Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

There are two main characteristics of the House of Commons which will command the approval and the support of reflective and experienced Members. The first is …

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. I could not fortell the course of ev…

Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, g…

Now, as discord is allowable, and even necessarily opposed to concord, why may not noise, or a seeming jargon, be opposed to fixed sounds and harmonical propor…