Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
It is sure the hardest science to forget!
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.