Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.