Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What the advantage, if his finer eyes Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?... Or quick Effluvia darting thro' his brain, Die of a Rose, in Aromatic pain? If Nature thunder'd in his opening ears, And stunn'd him with the music of the Spheres... Who finds not Providence all-good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

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