A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

True self-love and social are the same.