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

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

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

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

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.

Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.

Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.