I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

O dearer far than light and life are dear.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!