Cavil you may, but never criticise.
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.