He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.