Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.