Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.