"The light of love, the purity of grace,The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!"
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."
"I awoke one morning to find myself famous."