Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.