What is reading but silent conversation?
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.