Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.