The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

To build is to be robbed.