Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.