Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.