Good but rarely came from good advice.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

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

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!