He Prayeth Best Who Loveth Best.

We Ne'er Can Be Made Happy By Compulsion.

All Sympathy Not Consistent With Acknowledged Virtue Is But Disguised Selfishness.

Intense Study Of The Bible Will Keep Any Writer From Being Vulgar, In Point Of Style.

A Poet Ought Not To Pick Nature's Pocket. Let Him Borrow, And So Borrow As To Repay By The Very Act Of Borrowing. Examine Nature Accurately, But Write From Recollection, And Trust More To The Imagination Than The Memory.

Never Can True Courage Dwell With Them, Who, Playing Tricks With Conscience, Dare Not Look At Their Own Vices.