Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.