The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
There is a great amity between designing and art.
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.