There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?