 Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. |
| And die of nothing but a rage to live. |
| At ev'ry word a reputation dies. |
| Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. |
| Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. |
| The world forgetting, by the world forgot. |
| A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. |
| On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. |
| For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. |
| What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. |
| The proper study of Mankind is Man. |
| Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. |
| Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. |
| Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. |
| But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. |
| For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. |
| The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. |
| If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. |
| All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. |
| Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. |
