It Is Not Often That Any Man

The Business Of A Poet Is To Examine Not The Individual But The Species; To Remark General Properties And Large Appearances.

It Is Better To Live Rich Than To Die Rich.

Reason Will By Degrees Submit To Absurdity, As The Eye Is In Time Accommodated To Darkness.

You May Translate Books Of Science Exactly. ... The Beauties Of Poetry Cannot Be Preserved In Any Language Except That In Which It Was Originally Written.

Being Married To Those Sleepy-souled Women Is Just Like Playing At Cards For Nothing: No Passion Is Excited And The Time Is Filled Up. I Do Not, However, Envy A Fellow One Of Those Honeysuckle Wives For My Part, As They Are But Creepers At Best And Commonly Destroy The Tree They So Tenderly Cling About.