Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.

They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

A good poet's made as well as born.

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.