Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Who loves, raves.
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Absence - that common cure of love.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
The heart will break, but broken live on.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.