If A Man Has A Science To

Some People Wave Their Dogmatic Thinking Until Their Own Reason Is Entangled.

[the Poet] Must Write As The Interpreter Of Nature And The Legislator Of Mankind, And Consider Himself As Presiding Over The Thoughts And Manners Of Future Generations, As A Being Superior To Time And Place.

There Is ... Scarcely Any Species Of Writing Of Which We Can Tell What Is Its Essence, And What Are Its Constituents; Every New Genius Produces Some Innovation, Which, When Invented And Approved, Subverts The Rules Which The Practice Of Foregoing Authors Had Established.

No Man Sympathizes With The Sorrows Of Vanity.

If Pleasure Was Not Followed By Pain, Who Would Forbear It?