Youth Should Watch Joys And Shoot Them

To Tame The Proud, The Fetter'd Slave To Free, These Are Imperial Arts.

All The Learn'd Are Cowards By Profession.

Truth Is The Foundation Of All Knowledge And The Cement Of All Societies.

They Live Too Long Who Happiness Outlive.

Imagination In A Poet Is A Faculty So Wild And Lawless That, Like A High Ranging Spaniel, It Must Have Clogs Tied To It, Lest It Outrun The Judgment. The Great Easiness Of Blank Verse Renders The Poet Too Luxuriant. He Is Tempted To Say Many Things Which Might Better Be Omitted, Or, At Least Shut Up In Fewer Words.