The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Success never needs an excuse.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.