..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.