Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?