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.

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.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

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

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.