Could We Perfect Human Nature, We Might

The Suffering May Be Moral Or Physical; And In My Opinion It Is Just As Absurd To Call A Man A Coward Who Destroys Himself, As To Call A Man A Coward Who Dies Of A Malignant Fever.

Change Amuses The Mind, But Rarely Profits.

The Poet Should Seize The Particular, And He Should, If There Be Anything Sound In It, Thus Represent The Universal.

A Man Is Really Alive Only When He Delights In The Good-will Of Others.

The World Is So Great And Rich, And Life So Full Of Variety, That You Can Never Lack Occasions For Poems.