Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Life too near paralyses art.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.