Of All The Faculties Of The Mind,

Custom Is The Law Of One Description Of Fools, And Fashion Of Another; But The Two Parties Often Clash--for Precedent Is The Legislator Of The First, And Novelty Of The Last. Custom, Therefore, Looks To Things That Are Past, And Fashion To Things That Are Present.

If We Steal Thoughts From The Moderns, It Will Be Cried Down As Plagiarism; If From The Ancients, It Will Be Cried Up As Erudition.

Subtract From Many Modern Poets All That May Be Found In Shakespeare, And Trash Will Remain.

In Answering An Opponent, Arrange Your Ideas, But Not Your Words.

Were We As Eloquent As Angels We Still Would Please People Much More By Listening Rather Than Talking.