Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
True self-love and social are the same.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.