Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.