“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
Religion“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
Religion“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
Freedom“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”
Best“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.”
God“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.”
Jealousy“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
Trust“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
Truth“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.”
Fear“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
Great“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
Knowledge“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
Happiness“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.”
Hope“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.”
Age“Who loves, raves.”
Love“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Movingon“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Alone“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Death“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society