To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

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

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.