Despair and Genius are too oft connected

Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

Eat, drink and love...the rest is not worth a nickel

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!