In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

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.

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

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.