I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.