Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.