The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Never find fault with the absent.
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.