Never Elated When Someone's Oppressed, Never Dejected

Envy, To Which Th' Ignoble Mind's A Slave, Is Emulation In The Learn'd Or Brave.

In Lazy Apathy Let Stoics Boast, Their Virtue Fixed, 'tis Fixed As In A Frost.

Genius Creates, And Taste Preserves.

Why Did I Write? What Sin To Me Unknown Dipped Me In Ink, My Parents , Or My Own?

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