Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.