As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Mankind is unamendable.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.