Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

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

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

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