Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.