The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.