If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.