No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.