“Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where…”

“For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored…”

“And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness…”

“Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that…”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel…”

“A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,-- To himself he lives, and…”