A Wit With Dunces, And A Dunce

Wit In Conversation Is Only A Readiness Of Thought And A Facility Of Expression, Or A Quick Conception And An Easy Delivery.

Time Conquers All, And We Must Time Obey.

Party-spirit At Best Is But The Madness Of Many For The Gain Of A Few.

Of Little Use, The Man You May Suppose, Who Says In Verse What Others Say In Prose; Yet Let Me Show A Poet's Of Some Weight, And (though No Soldier) Useful To The State, What Will A Child Learn Sooner Than A Song? What Better Teach A Foreigner The Tongue? What's Long Or Short, Each Accent Where To Place And Speak In Public With Some Sort Of Grace?

True Friendship's Laws Are By This Rule Express'd, Welcome The Coming, Speed The Parting Guest.