Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.