| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| Duke of Buckinghamshire Sheffield. (1649–1720) |
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| 1 | Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well. |
| Essay on Poetry. |
| 2 | There ’s no such thing in Nature; and you ’ll draw
A faultless monster which the world ne’er saw. 1 |
| Essay on Poetry. |
| 3 | Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need. |
| Essay on Poetry. |
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