Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

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.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.