When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.