Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
— Thomas Hood
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
