Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.