Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.