What is reading but silent conversation.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
What is reading but silent conversation?
States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
