Edward Young Last Quotations

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall