Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.