No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
The beggarly last doit.
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.