Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

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

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.