This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

History - the devil's scripture

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.