The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience.

Trust As Little As You Can To Report, And Examine All You Can By Your Own Senses.

There Seems To Be A Strange Affectation In Authors Of Appearing To Have Done Everything By Chance.

Every Man Is Rich Or Poor According To The Proportion Between His Desires And His Enjoyments.

Words Become Low By The Occasions To Which They Are Applied, Or The General Character Of Them Who Use Them; And The Disgust Which They Produce Arises From The Revival Of Those Images With Which They Are Commonly United.

Life Is Barren Enough Surely With All Her Trappings; Let Us Be Therefore Cautious Of How We Strip Her.