Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.