George Crabbe

“Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.”

“Habit with him was all the test of truth; 'It must be right: I've done it from my youth.'”

“Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.”

“Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.”

“Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.”

“It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the mind descries.”

“But when the Cares of Life around me press, I find my chiefest solace in a book.”

“In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.”

“Theirs is the prize who patiently persist.”

“Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain.”

“For all that praise, which from the great descends, Points to themselves, and in themselves it ends.”

“With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.”