Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.