"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think are the works of God with a sentiment of profoundest reverence, as the highest manifestations of the…"

"I have been in love with a great many women. I have never been in love with a man."

"I have often thought that the sole regret of the transformed butterfly must be that it can only live for a day."

"I am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good. But I have never seen anything so good as a good wife."

"I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the Intellect or with the Conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless, inde…"