Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.