"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore"
"Prolonged endurance tames the bold"
"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people"
"Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?"
"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other"
"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim"
"Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger"
"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it"
"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep"
"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time"
"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail"
"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"
"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!"
"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"
"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin"
"Its very certain the desire of life prolongs it"
"Its pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't"
"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure"
"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen"
"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive"
"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil"
"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers"
"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms"
"Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure"
"I love not man the less, but Nature more"
"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure"
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether"
