Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. - Alexander Pope

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.