I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.