Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow
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Society is now one polished horde, formed by two mighty tribes - Bores and Bored.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.
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We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness -- but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.
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I love not man the less, but Nature more.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Sports
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world --not much remembered when the ball is over.
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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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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.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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