Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.