I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. greatness & wedding
The heart will break, but broken live on. moving on
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. religion
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. God
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. society
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. death
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. happiness & wedding
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. wisdom
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. architecture & poetry
Who loves, raves. love
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. aging & best
Absence - that common cure of love. love
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. being alone
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! poetry
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction. truth
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication. best
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. being alone
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. happiness
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. truth
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. fear, love & Valentine's Day
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. life & smile
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. death & men
Friendship is Love without his wings! friendship & love
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. men
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. greatness
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? change & truth
I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. politics
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. knowledge, life & wisdom
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. trust
Smiles form the channels of a future tear. the future
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. friendship & love
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. freedom
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. art & greatness
They never fail who die in a great cause. greatness
Adversity is the first path to truth. truth
I love not man the less, but Nature more. nature