So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.