Charles Churchill

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

A joke's a very serious thing.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Genius is independent of situation.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.