Devotion's Self Shall Steal A Thought From

I Was Not Born For Courts And Great Affairs, But I Pay My Debts, Believe And Say My Prayers.

The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Man.

At Length Corruption, Like A General Flood (so Long By Watchful Ministers Withstood), Shall Deluge All; And Avarice, Creeping On, Spread Like A Low-born Mist, And Blot The Sun.

The Cabinets Of The Sick And The Closets Of The Dead Have Been Ransacked To Publish Private Letters And Divulge To All Mankind The Most Secret Sentiments Of Friendship.

That Each From Other Differs, First Confess; Next That He Varies From Himself No Less.