The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.