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.

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!