"To others never do That which yourselves would wish undone to you."

"Behold the state of man's unstable mind, Still prone to change with every changing wind! All our resolves are weak, b…"

"Never let us utter what we never can know, And chiefly when it works another's woe."

"But such their power who rule with tyrant sway, Whom most they loath the people most obey."

"When Fame, O monarch! good or evil tells, Evil or good beyond the truth she swells."

"My endeavour has been to render the sense of my author as nearly as possible, which could never be done merely by tra…"

"The spotless maid is like the blooming rose Which on its native stem unsullied grows; Where fencing walls the garden-…"

"Love what we see can from our sight remove, And things invisible are seen by Love."

"Ah! why so rare does cruel Love inspire Two tender bosoms with a mutual fire? Say, whence, perfidious, dost thou plea…"

"And Neptune's white herds low above the wave."