The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.