The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

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

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.