1.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
2.
Choose an author as you would a friend.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
3.
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
4.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
5.
We weep and laugh, as we see others do.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
6.
The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
7.
Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
8.
Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
9.
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
10.
The last loud trumpet's wondrous sound, Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound, And wake the nations under ground.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
11.
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
12.
Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
13.
The first great work (a task performed by few)
Is that yourself may to yourself be true.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
14.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
15.
Whatsoever contradicts my sense,
I hate to see, and never can believe.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
16.
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
17.
The multitude is always wrong.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
18.
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
19.
Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
20.
Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
21.
Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
22.
Often try what weight you can support,
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
23.
Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
24.
Those things which now seem frivolous and slight,
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
25.
Praise Him, each savage furious beast
That on His stores do daily feast;
And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
Your weary knees to your Creator bow.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
26.
Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
27.
Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
28.
Words once spoken can never be recalled.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
29.
You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
30.
Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
