| Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. |
| Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. |
| All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. |
| Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war |
| Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink. |
| If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. |
| No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. |
| He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. |
| Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. |
| Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. |
| I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order. |
| Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. |
| Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never. |
| Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. |
| He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. |
| The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. |
| Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. |
| Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. |
| The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. |
| Poetry the best words in the best order. |
| There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch. |
| Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom. |
| There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. |
| Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor. |
| Friendship is like a sheltering tree. |
| He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. |
| What comes from the heart goes to the heart. |
| I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. |
| An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye. |
| What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. |
| Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. |
| Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. |
