Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy..

We can only love what we know..

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore..

It is to hope, though hope were lost..

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect..

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.

Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet wh….

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water..

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application..

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year..

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid ever….

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger w….

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions..

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like p….

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true..

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life..

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith..

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?.

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks..