If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

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.

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

Poetry is the breath of beauty.