He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

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.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.