“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.”

“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.”