All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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

But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge