Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

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.

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.