'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.