Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

It is for truth that God created genius.

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

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