To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportion...s than a vine filled with grapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O the cunning wiles that creep In thy little heart asleep!... When thy little heart doth wake, Then the dreadful night shall break.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Acts themselves alone are history.... Tell me the acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your ...reasoning and your rubbish! All that is not action is not worth reading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow,... Arise from their graves and aspire, Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them & the same will it be agai...nst Christians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It appears to me that men are hired to run down men of genius under the mask of translators, but Dante gives too much of Caesar: h...e is not a republican.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The enquiry in England is not whether a man has talents & genius, but whether he is passive & polite & a virtuous ass & obedient t...o noblemen's opinions in art & science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »