“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.