Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

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

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

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