People can commend the weather without envy.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.