So Vast Is Art, So Narrow Human

O Let Us Still The Secret Joy Partake, To Follow Virtue Even For Virtue's Sake.

I Would Not Be Like Those Authors, Who Forgive Themselves Some Particular Lines For The Sake Of A Whole Poem, And Vice Versa A Whole Poem For The Sake Of Some Particular Lines. I Believe No One Qualification Is So Likely To Make A Good Writer, As The Power Of Rejecting His Own Thoughts.

There Is No Study That Is Not Capable Of Delighting Us After A Little Application To It.

What Dire Offence From Am'rous Causes Springs, What Mighty Contests Rise From Trivial Things.

Oft, As In Airy Rings They Skim The Heath, The Clamtrous Lapwings Feel The Leaden Death; Oft, As The Mounting Larks Their Notes Prepare They Fall, And Leave Their Little Lives In Air.