But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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.

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

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.