Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.