Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends