I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

A quote about drinking is a joy forever

Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, - Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead. Awake! arise! my love and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.

I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.