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.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.