No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

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

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.