Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.