To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Never find fault with the absent.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
