Never Elated When Someone's Oppressed, Never Dejected

For Wit And Judgment Often Are At Strife, Though Meant Each Other's Aid, Like Man And Wife.

Judge Not Of Actions By Their Mere Effect; Dive To The Center, And The Cause Detect. Great Deeds From Meanest Springs May Take Their Course, And Smallest Virtues From A Mighty Source.

And Hence One Master-passion In The Breast, Like Aaron's Serpent, Swallows Up The Rest.

Virtue She Finds Too Painful An Endeavour, Content To Dwell In Decencies For Ever.

What Some Call Health, If Purchased By Perpetual Anxiety About Diet, Isn't Much Better Than Tedious Disease.