And make each day a critic on the last.

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!