More from George, 1st Baron Lyttelton

  1. The lover in the husband may be lost.
  2. None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.
  3. What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
  4. Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.
  5. Women, like princes, find few real friends.
  6. Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain.
  7. For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One l…

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