Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.