What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!