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

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.