It Is Less Dishonor To Hear Imperfectly

For A Man To Write Well, There Are Required Three Necessaries: To Read The Best Authors, Observe The Best Speakers, And Much Exercise Of His Own Style.

O, For An Engine, To Keep Back All Clocks, Or Make The Sun Forget His Motion!

Chance Will Not Do The Work. Chance Sends The Breeze; But If The Pilot Slumber At The Helm, The Very Wind That Wafts Us Tow'rds The Port May Dash Us On The Shoals. The Steersman's Part Is Vigilance, Or Blow It Rough Or Smooth.

O! How Vain And Vile A Passion Is This Fear! What Base Uncomely Things It Makes Men Do.

Now We Are All Fallen, Youth From Their Fear, And Age From That Which Bred It, Good Example.