It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. |
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. |
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. |
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. |
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. |
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. |
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. |