Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.