Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

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

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.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

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

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

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