A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

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

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.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?