The more you do, the more you can do.

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

Words are the only things that last for ever.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.