I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

Those who can command themselves command others.

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

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.