When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
Dead men tell no tales.
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.