O! How Vain And Vile

For A Man To Write Well, There Are Required Three Necessaries: To Read The Best Authors, Observe The Best Speakers, And Much Exercise Of His Own Style.

Whom The Disease Of Talking Still Once Posses-seth, He Can Never Hold His Peace.

In Small Proportions We Just Beauties See; And In Short Measures, Life May Perfect Be.

The Poet Is The Nearest Borderer Upon The Orator.

Thy Praise Or Dispraise Is To Me Alike; One Doth Not Stroke Me, Nor The Other Strike.