Lord Bacon Could As Easily Have Created

A Mind That Has Seen, And Suffered, And Done, Speaks To Us Of What It Has Tried And Conquered.

How Great A Possibility, How Small A Realized Result.

There Is A Great Discovery Still To Be Made In Literature, That Of Paying Literary Men By The Quantity They Do Not Write.

He That Works And Does Some Poem, Not He That Merely Says One, Is Worthy Of The Name Of Poet.

It Is In General More Profitable To Reckon Up Our Defeats Than To Boast Of Our Attainments.