Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Whatever is, is right.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.