'T is but to know how little can be known;
To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 254.
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land?
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 261.
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind!
Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,[319:2]
See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame![319:3]