Remorse weeps tears of blood.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.