Satire Or Sense, Alas! Can

For Thee I Dim These Eye And Stuff This Head With All Such Reading As Was Never Read.

It Is Not So Much The Being Exempt From Faults, As Having Overcome Them, That Is An Advantage To Us.

I Believe No One Qualification Is So Likely To Make A Good Writer, As The Power Of Rejecting His Own Thoughts.

He Knows To Live Who Keeps The Middle State, And Neither Leans On This Side Nor On That.

All Nature Is But Art Unknown To Thee.