What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.

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

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.