Truth Shines The Brighter, Clad In Verse.

That Character In Conversation Which Commonly Passes For Agreeable Is Made Up Of Civility And Falsehood.

Find, If You Can, In What You Cannot Change. Manners With Fortunes, Humours Turn With Climes, Tenets With Books, And Principles With Times.

A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing; Drink Of It Deeply, Or Taste It Not, For Shallow Thoughts Intoxicate The Brain, And Drinking Deeply Sobers Us Again.

All Nature Is But Art Unknown To Thee.

Satire's My Weapon, But I'm Too Discreet To Run Amuck, And Tilt At All I Meet.