I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Hope springs eternal.

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

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.