The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
— Lord Byron
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
Absence - that common cure of love.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
