Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.