That, like the measles, love was most dangerous when it came late in life.
Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
She walks in Beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; and all that’s best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Shakespeare’s name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens, even, accidentally, to stumble upon it.
Romances I ne’er read like those I have seen.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean – roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; man marks the earth with ruin – his control stops with the shore.
Proud Wellington, with eagle beak so curled, that nose, the hook where he suspends the world!
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.
