Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.