I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Self praise is no praise at all.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.