More from "Common Places," No. 1, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)
- All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.
- Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
- Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
- Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
- Grace is the absence of every thing that indicates pain or difficulty, or hesitation or incongruity.
- Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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