"Yours is the guilt of all, who, judging wrong, Mistake tuned nonsense for the poet's song! Provoking dulness!—what a …"

"O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light."

"Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how ma…"

"Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk r…"

"You talk no more of that gay nation now, Where men adore their wives, and woman's power Draws reverence from a polish…"

"Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish."

"Can my fond heart, on such a feeble proof, Embrace a faith, abhorred by him I love? I see too plainly custom forms us…"

"First, then, a woman will or won’t, depend on ’t; If she will do ’t, she will; and there ’s an end on ’t. But if she …"

"Reason gains all men, by compelling none. Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark: And he, who bears it not, has…"

"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, And lose the medium in the wild extreme, Do not repent, but regulate your passio…"