Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.