The highest Beauty should be plain set.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.