Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

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

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

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.

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.