Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder.

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

There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.