Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.