A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.