he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.