Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Power is the first good.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.