Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.