Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Order is heaven's first law.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.