From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.