For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.