"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general..." — Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.