Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.
Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.