Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.