Patience and gentleness is power.
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.
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.