I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.