Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.