Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd