“True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.”

“You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.”

“All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord,…”

“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of…”

“A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as…”

“Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please.”