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

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain