Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.