How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

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

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.