All men in the abstract are just and good.

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.