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

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

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

Cats like men are flatterers.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.