The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

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