Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
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.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.
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.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
The heart will break, but broken live on.
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!