If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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