"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

"Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after."

"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."

"Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep."

"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: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies."

"Fame is the thirst of youth."

"The best prophet of the future is the past."

"I am never long even in the society of her I love without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library."

"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little."

"Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were."

"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

"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."

"Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?"

"Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate."

"Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?"

"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."

"There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where."

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."

"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."

"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."

"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."

"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons."

"I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains."

"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away."

"Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home."

"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."

"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people."

"Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice Her heart be sure is not of ice And one refusal no rebuff."

"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

"When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said."

"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."

"Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."

"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim."

"The 'good old times' - all times when old are good."

"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."

"Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well."

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

"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."

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."

"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."

"Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."

"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."

"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."