True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Mankind is unamendable.

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.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.