It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

I am then never less alone than when alone

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.