Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.