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

"A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping Dirty and dusty but as wide as eye Could reach with here and there a sail just skipping In sight then lost amidst the forestry Of masts a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy A huge dun cupola like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town."

"Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!"

"Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto."

"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."

"Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal though no more though fallen great!"

"Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my heart!"

"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."

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

"When we think we lead we most are led."

"I am not now That which I have been."

"'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it."

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."

"Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!"

"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

"On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn when Youth and Pleasure meet."

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."

"All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin."

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored."

"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."

"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

"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."

"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it."

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them."

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

"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."

"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."

"Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger."

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"For the night Shows stars and women in a better light."

"His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole.""

"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."

"Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."

"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."

"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."

"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge."