"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?"
"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"
"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"
"The 'good old times' - all times when old are good"
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life"
"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them"
"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"
"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication"
"When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it"
"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend"
"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"
