When Men Come To Like A Sea-life,

The Finest Landscape In The World Is Improved By A Good Inn In The Foreground.

Novelty Is Indeed Necessary To Preserve Eagerness And Alacrity; But Art And Nature Have Stores Inexhaustible By Human Intellects, And Every Moment Produces Something New To Him Who Has Quickened His Faculties By Diligent Observation.

To A Poet Nothing Can Be Useless.

Self-love Is Often Rather Arrogant Than Blind; It Does Not Hide Our Faults From Ourselves, But Persuades Us That They Escape The Notice Of Others.

I Never Desire To Converse With A Man Who Has Written More Than He Has Read.