One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.