Poetry Is A Kind Of Ingenious Nonsense

None Are Too Wise To Be Mistaken, But Few Are So Wisely Just As To Acknowledge And Correct Their Mistakes, And Especially The Mistakes Of Prejudice.

Upright Simplicity Is The Deepest Wisdom, And Perverse Craft The Merest Shallowness.

Shall We Keep Our Hands In Our Bosom, Or Stretch Ourselves On Our Beds Of Laziness, While All The World About Us Is Hard At Work, In Pursuing The Designs Of Its Creation?

Nature Has Concatenated Our Fortunes And Affections Together With Indissoluble Bands Of Mutual Sympathy.

Wherefore For The Public Interest And Benefit Of Human Society It Is Requisite That The Highest Obligations Possible Should Be Laid Upon The Consciences Of Men.