Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.