A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.
The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.
Silence always gives consent.
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.