“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
Trust“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
Life“We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.”
Trust“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
Age“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”
Change“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Art“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“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.”
Nature“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Nature“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
Future“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Architecture“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
Great“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
Happiness“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“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Death“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Fear“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
Knowledge“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“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
Alone