"How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?"

"He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind."

"In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods."

"Then marble soften'd into life grew warm."

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."

"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."

"Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools."

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

"Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please."

"Some who grow dull religious straight commenceAnd gain in morals what they lose in sense."

"A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ."

"The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery."

"The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person."

"Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall."

"All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!"

"Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance."

"Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live."

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."

"If I am right, Thy grace impartStill in the right to stay;If I am wrong, O, teach my heartTo find that better way!"

"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."

"Make use of every friend- and every foe."

"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."

"Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state."

"At ev'ry word a reputation dies."

"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."

"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine."

"We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so."

"Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?"

"Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example."

"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."

"Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocean gains.In other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsThus in the soul while memory prevails,The solid power of understanding failsWhere beams of warm imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt awayOne science only will one genius fit,So vast is art, so narrow human witNot only bounded to peculiar arts,But oft in those confined to single partsLike kings, we lose the conquests gained before,By vain ambition still to make them moreEach might his several province well command,Would all but stoop to what they understand."

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

"He that would pun would pick a pocket."

"There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it."

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."

"The proper study of Mankind is Man."

"And die of nothing but a rage to live."

"For he lives twice who can at once employ,The present well, and e'en the past enjoy."

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded."

"Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."

"Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee."

"False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the loss."

"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."

"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole."

"Health consists with temperance alone."