Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. What we have missed long enough to want it, we value more when it is regained; but that which has been lost till it is forgotten will be found at last with little gladness, and with still less if a substitute has supplied the place.