What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.