The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

The dream is short, repentance long.

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.