For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

Error is ever talkative.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.