The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience.

Deviation From Nature Is Deviation From Happiness.

The Business Of A Poet Is To Examine Not The Individual But The Species; To Remark General Properties And Large Appearances.

Those Who Do Not Feel Pain Seldom Think That It Is Felt.

Pity Is Not Natural To Man. Children Always Are Cruel. Savages Are Always Cruel.

Age Is Rarely Despised But When It Is, Contemptible.