Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.