What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.