In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Never mind the use--do it!

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.