Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
Education forms the common mind.
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.