Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

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.

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.