The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.