Fickle Fortune Reigns, And, Undiscerning, Scatters Crowns

The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Man.

Such As Are Still Observing Upon Others Are Like Those Who Are Always Abroad At Other Men's Houses, Reforming Everything There While Their Own Runs To Ruin.

Condition, Circumstance, Is Not The Thing; Bliss Is The Same In Subject Or In King.

Not Half So Swift The Trembling Doves Can Fly, When The Fierce Eagle Cleaves The Liquid Sky; Not Half So Swiftly The Fierce Eagle Moves, When Thro' The Clouds He Drives The Trembling Doves.

To Wake The Soul By Tender Strokes Of Art, To Raise The Genius, And To Mend The Heart