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

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.