All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.