“Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.” WantWellsArtGracePoetAdvantageGoldWitNakedPainterJewelsOrnaments Author:Alexander Pope
“What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.” WellsEarthGoldEarsRegardRewardsClay Book:Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man