A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Was ever poet so trusted before?

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.