moralist quotes

   Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly!

-Thomas Gray
  Ode on the Spring, l.41^4.

Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.

-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.81^4.