Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue