There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.