The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.