Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Who lives content with little possesses everything.
Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.