The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.