Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.