Where Violence Reigns, Reason Is Weak.

The Sunset Glow Of Self-possession.

And So I Leave This World, Where The Heart Must Either Break Or Turn To Lead (suicide Note)

Most Anthologists Of Poetry Or Quotations Are Like Those Who Eat Cherries Or Oysters, First Picking The Best And Ending By Eating Everything.

In Order To Forgive Reason For The Evil It Has Wrought On The Majority Of Men, We Must Imagine For Ourselves What Man Would Be Without His Reason. 'tis A Necessary Evil.

Nature In Causing Reason And The Passions To Be Born At One And The Same Time Apparently Wished By The Latter Gift To Distract Man From The Evil She Had Done Him By The Former, And By Only Permitting Him To Live For A Few Years After The Loss Of His Passions Seems To Show Her Pity By Early Deliverance From A Life That Reduces Him To Reason As His Sole Resource.