Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.