[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.