That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

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 man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.