Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.