We must be doing something to be happy.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.