Party-spirit At Best Is But The Madness

The Difference Is Too Nice - Where Ends The Virtue Or Begins The Vice.

Fear Not The Anger Of The Wise To Raise; Those Best Can Bear Reproof Who Merit Praise.

Slave To No Sect, Who Takes No Private Road, But Looks Through Nature Up To Nature's God.

Tis Thus The Mercury Of Man Is Fix'd, Strong Grows The Virtue With His Nature Mix'd.

Old Men, For The Most Part, Are Like Old Chronicles That Give You Dull But True Accounts Of Times Past, And Are Worth Knowing Only On That Score.