Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

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

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.