“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Politics“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Alone“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Politics“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
Future“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.”
Truth“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.”
Business“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
Architecture“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
Art“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“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“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
Religion“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
Great“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Fear“Who loves, raves.”
Love“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
Happiness“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Death“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Death“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“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 love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Nature