Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.