Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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.

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.