It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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

Mankind is unamendable.

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.