The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

The poetry of speech.

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.