Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.