I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.