A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.