Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.