At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.