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