It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.