Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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

Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

What dire offence from amorous causes springs! What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

Atheists put on a false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.