A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - Dull -beyond all conception - dull.

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

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