Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.