Genius Must Be Born, And Never Can

Imitation Pleases, Because It Affords Matter For Inquiring Into The Truth Or Falsehood Of Imitation, By Comparing Its Likeness Or Unlikeness With The Original.

Railing In Other Men May Be A Crime, But Ought To Pass For Mere Instinct In Him: Instinct He Follows And No Further Knows, For To Write Verse With Him Is To Transprose.

Nothing To Build, And All Things To Destroy.

Ill Habits Gather Unseen Degrees, As Brooks Make Rivers, Rivers Run To Seas.

A Brave Man Scorns To Quarrel Once A Day; Like Hectors In At Every Petty Fray.