“Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last.”

“For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.”

“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives the”

“Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.”

“Never find fault with the absent.”

“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”

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

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

“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”