Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.