Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.