Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.