The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

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

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.