To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.

There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.