Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
Remorse begets reform.
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.