Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
The days that make us happy make us wise
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.