“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”
Best“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
Truth“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“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
Friendship“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Love“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Death“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Politics“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Truth“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
Freedom“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Architecture“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“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“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Alone“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.”
Men“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”
Best“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
Alone“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”
Poetry“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
God