Order is heaven's first law.

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

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.