You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

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

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

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.