Poetry Is The Art Of Uniting Pleasure

All Severity That Does Not Tend To Increase Good, Or Prevent Evil, Is Idle.

In Lapidary Inscriptions A Man Is Not Upon Oath.

Friendship Is Seldom Lasting But Between Equals, Or Where The Superiority On One Side Is Reduced By Some Equivalent Advantage On The Other.

Critics Ought Never To Be Consulted, But While Errors May Yet Be Rectified Or Insipidity Suppressed. But When The Book Has Once Been Dismissed Into The World, And Can Be No More Retouched, I Know Not Whether A Very Different Conduct Should Not Be Prescribed, And Whether Firmness And Spirit May Not Sometimes Be Of Use To Overpower Arrogance And Repel Brutality.

Happiness," Said He, "must Be Something Solid And Permanent, Without Fear And Without Uncertainty.