The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
