A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.