Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

Words once spoken can never be recalled.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.