I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.