We Think Our Fathers Fools,

That Character In Conversation Which Commonly Passes For Agreeable Is Made Up Of Civility And Falsehood.

They Dream In Courtship, But In Wedlock Wake.

See How The World Its Veterans Rewards! A Youth Of Frolics, An Old Age Of Cards; Fair To No Purpose, Artful To No End, Young Without Lovers, Old Without A Friend; A Fop Their Passion, But Their Prize A Sot; Alive Ridiculous, And Dead Forgot.

Index-learning Turns No Student Pale, Yet Holds The Eel Of Science By The Tail. Index-learning Is A Term Used To Mock Pretenders Who Acquire Superficial Knowledge Merely By Consulting Indexes.

No Creature Smarts So Little As A Fool.