Suspicion is the cancer of friendship..

If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half….

And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the oce….

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter..

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay..

An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace..

For style beyond the genius never dares..

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world..

To be able to say how much love, is love but little..

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds..

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified..

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything..

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intende….

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure..

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other..

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual….

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived..

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live..