O grant me, Heaven, a middle state,
Neither too humble nor too great;
More than enough, for nature's ends,
With something left to treat my friends.

"Horace, Epistle XIII. Book I. imitated", l. 132. Unattributed in The London Magazine, vol. 2 (August 1784) p. 125. Attributed to Mallet in John F. Addington (ed.) Poetical Quotations (Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1829) p. 172, no. 18

Horace, Satires, bk. 2, no. 6, ll. 1–3 (Hoc erat in votis)