Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Mankind is unamendable.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]