The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.