Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!