Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.