"However dogs may bark at me, and pigs grunt, I shall always imitate the writings of the ancients: these shall be my study, nor, while my strength lasts, shall the sun find me idle. We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, by whose grace we see farther than they. Our study of the ancients enables us to give fresh life to their finer ideas, and rescue them from time’s oblivion and man’s neglect."