"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."

"For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour."

"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!"

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

"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."

"It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word."

"Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

"They never fail who die in a great cause."

"History is the devil's scripture."

"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure."

"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."

"Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?"

"I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee."

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

"The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice."

"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."

"The busy have no time for tears."

"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."

"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company."

"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?"

"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone."

"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."

"Smiles form the channels of a future tear."

"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver."

"In solitude, where we are least alone."

"A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!"

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest and but heal to wear That which disfigures it."

"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."

"Tis strange - but true for truth is always strange Stranger than fiction."

"Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction."

"Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?"

"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."

"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."

"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."

"Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."

"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."

"In solitude when we are least alone."

"Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did."

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."

"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin."

"In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love."

"A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth."

"If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers."