All Chance, Direction, Which Thou Canst Not

And Empty Heads Console With Empty Sound.

Search Then The Ruling Passion: This Clue, Once Found, Unravels All The Rest.

Poets Heap Virtues, Painters Gems, At Will, And Show Their Zeal, And Hide Their Want Of Skill.

Placed On This Isthmus Of A Middle State.

Our Judgments, Like Our Watches, None Go Just Alike, Yet Each Believes His Own