To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a ….

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame..

Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have t….

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own..

Genius is independent of situation..

Patience is sorrow's salve..

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacin….

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself..

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse..

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, an….

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word..

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake ou….

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid..

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow..

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most ….

Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part..

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm..

The more haste, ever the worst speed..

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce..

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail..