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

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.