“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?”

“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.”