Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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.