Education forms the common mind.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

Dogs, ye have had your day!

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.