"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
"I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness."
"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."
"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone."
"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."
"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."
"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."
"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure."
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
"Absence - that common cure of love."
"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."