Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

It is when we think we lead that we are most led.