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• Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• A love that took an early root, And had an early doom.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold, The hairs on his brow were silver-white, And his blood was thin and old.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
  The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall....
• Progress is best made through discussion among people who have contrasting points of view.
• EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
  Following is a touching example: Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live i...
• The history of the rise of Christianity has everything to do with politics, culture, and human frailties and nothing to do with supernatural manipulation of events.
  Had divine intervention been the guiding force, surely two millennia after the birth of Jesus he would not have a world where there are more Muslims than Catholics, more Hindus than Protestants, and more nontheists than Catholics and Protestants combined....
• NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.
  As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama....