If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work, but find it is a foolish experiment.

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

Where man is not, nature is barren.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

O! why was I born with a different face? / Why was I not born like the rest of my race?