Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.