Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
Alexander PopeAll looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
Alexander PopeI believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
Alexander PopeThe bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
Alexander Pope