A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.