Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.