Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

God will pardon: That's His business.