Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.