A Family Is But Too

To Pardon Those Absurdities In Ourselves Which We Cannot Suffer In Others Is Neither Better Nor Worse Than To Be More Willing To Be Fools Ourselves Than To Have Others So.

'tis Not Enough Your Counsel Still Be True; Blunt Truths More Mischief Than Nice Falsehoods Do.

To Happy Convents, Bosomed Deep In Vines, Where Slumber Abbots, Purple As Their Wines.

New, Distant Scenes Of Endless Science Rise: So Pleas'd At First, The Towring Alps We Try.

For I, Who Hold Sage Homer's Rule The Best, Welcome The Coming, Speed The Going Guest.