For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.