Between two worlds life hovers like a star, ‘twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing, but like a hawk encumber’d with his hood, explaining metaphysics to the nation I wish he would explain his Explanation.
America is a Model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
All who joy would win must share it, happiness was born a twin.
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies are ended by a marriage.
All farewells should be sudden, when for ever.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man – may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
A woman being never at a loss – the devil always sticks by them.
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust.
