And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

I awoke one day to find myself famous.