To Teach Vain Wits That Science Little

Nor Fame I Slight, Nor For Her Favors Call; She Comes Unlooked For, If She Comes At All .

Who Ne'er Knew Joy But Friendship Might Divide,or Gave His Father Grief But When He Died.

Wit In Conversation Is Only A Readiness Of Thought And A Facility Of Expression, Or A Quick Conception And An Easy Delivery.

What's Fame? A Fancy'd Life In Other's Breath. A Thing Beyond Us, Even Before Our Death.

Men Must Be Taught As If You Taught Them Not, And Things Unknown Proposed As Things Forgot.