"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other...." — William Shenstone

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.