Praise Is Like Ambergrease: A Little Whiff

Nor In The Critic Let The Man Be Lost.

For I, Who Hold Sage Homer's Rule The Best, Welcome The Coming, Speed The Going Guest.

Therefore They Who Say Our Thoughts Are Not Our Own Because They Resemble The Ancients, May As Well Say Our Faces Are Not Our Own, Because They Are Like Our Fathers: And Indeed It Is Very Unreasonable, That People Should Expect Us To Be Scholars, And Yet Be Angry To Find Us So.

For Forms Of Government, Let Fools Contest; Whate'er Is Best Administered, Is Best.

How Happy Is The Blameless Vestal's Lot? The World Forgetting, By The World Forgot.