Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.