The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!