By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

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

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.