The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.