If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.