"The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?"

"A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss,"

"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."

"A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night."

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

"All Love is sweet. Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever."

"I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight"

"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry."

"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."

"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."

"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry"

"To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign."

"The soul's joy lies in doing."

"Heaven's ebon vault, studded with stars unutterably bright, through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, seems like a canopy which love has spread to curtain her sleeping world"

"January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers."

"Winter is come and gone,But grief returns with the revolving year."

"There is no real wealth but the labor of man."

"It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons."

"The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom; And all good things are thus confused with ill."

"All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign."

"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."

"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."

"The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present."

"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."

"Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."

"To hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates."

"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."

"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."

"Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time."

"There is no sport in hate when all the rage is on one side"

"Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself."

"All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."

"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."

"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."

"The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys."

"Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."

"The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure."

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."

"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too"

"When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even."

"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."

"A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration."

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."

"All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil"

"All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still."