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• A love that took an early root, And had an early doom.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• The tomb of him who would have made The world too glad and free.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold, The hairs on his brow were silver-white, And his blood was thin and old.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.
  -- Thomas K. Hervey (1799-1859) -- The Devil's Progre...
• Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!
  Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied...
• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [public offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 1799...
• Ships are safe in harbor, but they were never meant to stay there.
• Politicians are like ships - noisiest when lost in a fog.
• Eyes of unholy blue. -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- By that Lake whose gloomy Shore