Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.