All love is sweet, given or received.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.