Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.

Custom is the great guide of human life.

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.