"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."

"Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."

"Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend."

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

"Hunger is insolent and will be fed."

"What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things."

"An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him."

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."

"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."

"We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so."

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance."

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more."

"While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep."

"Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

"Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake."

"Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God afraid of me."

"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."

"Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd."

"For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends."

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."

"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

"On wrongs swift vengeance waits."

"Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away."

"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."

"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry."

"Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me."

"The most positive men are the most credulous."

"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

"Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone."

"In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity."

"Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello."

"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."

"Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,In pleasing memory of all he stole."

"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die."

"Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think."

"All nature is but art unknown to thee."

"Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?"

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

"Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever."

"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."

"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres."

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."