Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.