All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.