“Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more”

“Wedded she some years, and to a manOf fifty, and such husbands are in plenty;And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty...”

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star,'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's vergeHow little we know that which we are!How less we may be!”

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

“To have joy, one must share it.”

“I awoke one morning to find myself famous.”