Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

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

Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

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