"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."

"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance."

"The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more."

"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."

"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."

"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

"On wrongs swift vengeance waits."

"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."

"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me."

"The most positive men are the most credulous."

"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

"A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits."

"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die."

"All nature is but art unknown to thee."

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head."

"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

"Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever."

"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."

"The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres."

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"At ev'ry word a reputation dies."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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