If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.