Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.