Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Grief is a species of idleness.
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.