The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Frienship is eros...without wings

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.