Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.