The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.