Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.