There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

What is reading but silent conversation?

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.