God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.