there is no reasoning with imagination.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

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

Justice satisfies everybody.

[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.