What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

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