Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.