I Was Not Born For Courts And

Modest Plainness Sets Off Sprightly Wit, For Works May Have More With Than Does 'em Good, As Bodies Perish Through Excess Of Blood.

Fine Sense And Exalted Sense Are Not Half So Useful As Common Sense.

To Be Angry Is To Revenge The Faults Of Others On Ourselves.

We May See The Small Value God Has For Riches, By The People He Gives Them To.

Court-virtues Bear, Like Gems, The Highest Rate, Born Where Heav'n Influence Scarce Can Penetrate. In Life's Low Vale, The Soil The Virtues Like, They Please As Beauties, Here As Wonders Strike.