Great men always pay deference to greater.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.