Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.