I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.