"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
- James Russell Lowell
"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."
"They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."
"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."
"Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best."
"Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes."
"In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it."
"Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run."
"May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind."