"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."
"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."
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
"Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted."
"Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises."
"Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame."
"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor."
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."
"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
"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."
"There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection."
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper<BR>On a dunghill hard, by his own stable<BR>And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind<BR>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."
"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick."
"That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch."
"Friendship is like a sheltering tree."
"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
"What comes from the heart goes to the heart."
"An orphan's curse would drag to Hell<br>A spirit from on high;<p>But oh! More horrible than that<br>Is the curse in a dead man's eye."
"No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher."
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration."