Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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.
True self-love and social are the same.
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.