The dew of compassion is a tear.
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
Think not I am what I appear.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
The heart will break, but broken live on.
In solitude, when we are least alone.
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
I am not now That which I have been.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
Let joy be unconfined.
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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