The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
Divorces are made in heaven.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
Circumstances should never alter principles!