There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.