What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.