No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

He was not of an age, but for all time!