Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.