The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.