One Self-approving Hour Whole Years Outweighs.

To Balance Fortune By A Just Expense, Join With Economy, Magnificence.

If, Presume Not To God To Scan; The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Man. Plac'd On This Isthmus Of A Middle State, A Being Darkly Wise, And Rudely Great.

Astrologers That Future Fates Foreshow.

Nor In The Critic Let The Man Be Lost.

Pleasures Are Ever In Our Hands Or Eyes; And When In Act They Cease, In Prospect Rise.