Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.