To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

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

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.