The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.

Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.