How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.