If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.