My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him order ...the architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To know how to be content, and to be so, protects one from disgrace; to know self-restraint and practice it protects one from sham...e.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no kind of false Wit which has been so recommended by the Practice of all Ages, as that which consists in a Jingle of Wor...ds, and is comprehended under the general Name of Punning. It is indeed impossible to kill a Weed, which the Soil has a natural Disposition to produce. The seeds of Punning are in the Minds of all Men, and tho' they may be subdued by Reason, Reflection, and good Sense, they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest Genius, that is not broken and cultivated by the Rules of Art. Imitation is natural to us, and when it does not raise the Mind to Poetry, Painting, Musick, or other more noble Arts, it often breaks out in Punns and Quibbles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
. . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown! These bones, how they grind in the granite of frost and are noth...ing! This skull, how it yawns for a flicker of time in the darkness, Yet laughs not and sees not!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »