Heav'n First Taught Letters For

A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing; Drink Deep, Or Taste Not The Pierian Spring.

The Best Way To Prove The Clearness Of Our Mind, Is By Showing Its Faults; As When A Stream Discovers The Dirt At The Bottom, It Convinces Us Of The Transparency And Purity Of The Water.

Horses (thou Say'st) And Asses Men May Try, And Ring Suspected Vessels Ere They Buy; But Wives, A Random Choice, Untried They Take; They Dream In Courtship, But In Wedlock Wake; Then, Nor Till Then, The Veil's Removed Away, And All The Woman Glares In Open Day.

Strength Of Mind Is Exercise, Not Rest.

Is That A Birthday? 'tis, Alas! Too Clear; 'tis But The Funeral Of The Former Year.