The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Gratitude is a species of justice.
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.