We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

To stay youthful, stay useful.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.