As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.