Hope Travels Through, Nor Quits Us When

Silence! Coeval With Eternity! Thou Wert Ere Nature's Self Began To Be; Thine Was The Sway Ere Heaven Was Formed On Earth, Ere Fruitful Thought Conceived Creation's Birth.

Like Cato, Give His Little Senate Laws, And Sit Attentive To His Own Applause.

I Would Not Be Like Those Authors, Who Forgive Themselves Some Particular Lines For The Sake Of A Whole Poem, And Vice Versa A Whole Poem For The Sake Of Some Particular Lines. I Believe No One Qualification Is So Likely To Make A Good Writer, As The Power Of Rejecting His Own Thoughts.

Be Not The First By Whom The New Are Tried, Nor Yet The Last To Lay The Old Aside.

Condition, Circumstance, Is Not The Thing; Bliss Is The Same In Subject Or In King.