What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see