"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases." — William Shenstone

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.