Two human loves make one divine.

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.