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.

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Order is heaven's first law.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.