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

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

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

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.