And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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.