In Vain Sedate Reflections We Would Make

Men Must Be Taught As If You Taught Them Not, And Things Unknown Proposed As Things Forgot.

I Think A Good Deal May Be Said To Extenuate The Fault Of Bad Poets. What We Call A Genius, Is Hard To Be Distinguish'd By A Man Himself, From A Strong Inclination: And If His Genius Be Ever So Great, He Can Not At First Discover It Any Other Way, Than By Giving Way To That Prevalent Propensity Which Renders Him The More Liable To Be Mistaken.

Like Bubbles On The Sea Of Matter Borne, They Rise, They Break, And To That Sea Return.

In Lazy Apathy Let Stoics Boast, Their Virtue Fix'd: 't Is Fix'd As In A Frost; Contracted All, Retiring To The Breast; But Strength Of Mind Is Exercise, Not Rest.

Devotion's Self Shall Steal A Thought From Heaven.