Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland.

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.