Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.