Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.