Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.