Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.