Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.