What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!