Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

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.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

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.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.