Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.