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