For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.