Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.