The Sound Must Seem An Echo To

No Writing Is Good That Does Not Tend To Better Mankind In Some Way Or Other.

To Observations Which Ourselves We Make, We Grow More Partial For Th' Observer's Sake.

Fine Sense And Exalted Sense Are Not Half So Useful As Common Sense.

Heav'n First Taught Letters For Some Wretch's Aid, Some Banish'd Lover, Or Some Captive Maid.

Judge Not Of Actions By Their Mere Effect; Dive To The Center, And The Cause Detect. Great Deeds From Meanest Springs May Take Their Course, And Smallest Virtues From A Mighty Source.