For A Man To Become A Poet

Friendship May, And Often Does, Grow Into Love, But Love Never Subsides Into Friendship.

To Be Perfectly Original One Should Think Much And Read Little, And This Is Impossible, For One Must Have Read Before One Has Learnt To Think.

Think You, If Laura Had Been Petrarch's Wife, He Would Have Written Sonnets All His Life?.

I Really Cannot Know Whether I Am Or Am Not The Genius You Are Pleased To Call Me, But I Am Very Willing To Put Up With The Mistake, If It Be One.

I Do Detest Everything Which Is Not Perfectly Mutual.