Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.