Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.