Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

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.

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.