Occupation: Writer Birth: October 21, 1790 Death: February 28, 1869
Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast wher….
Mystery hovers over all things here below..
He, who can create, abhors destruction..
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart..
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times..
The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect..
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature..
Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last sm….
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality..
Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's bro….
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them..
My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator..
Philosophy is the rational expression of genius..
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man i….
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition..
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdi….
When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh..
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask..
Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it..
I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night..
We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any..