But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.