Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving...
Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised...
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart...
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the...
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose...
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die...
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have...
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.