On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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.