A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.