She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

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 stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.