There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.