Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Order is heaven's first law.

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

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.