Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
The monster London laugh at me.
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.