Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.