All good writing leaves something unexpressed.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.