Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.

There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

The contact of two epidermises.