There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.