For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.