Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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