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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

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Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

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Facts are stupid things.

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To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.

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When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.

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