Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.