The Safe And General Antidote Against Sorrow

From Ignorance Our Comfort Flows, The Only Wretched Are The Wise

What Is Easy Is Seldom Excellent.

There Is ... Scarcely Any Species Of Writing Of Which We Can Tell What Is Its Essence, And What Are Its Constituents; Every New Genius Produces Some Innovation, Which, When Invented And Approved, Subverts The Rules Which The Practice Of Foregoing Authors Had Established.

Those Who Attempt Nothing Themselves Think Every Thing Easily Performed, And Consider The Unsuccessful Always As Criminal.

Applause Abates Diligence.