The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

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

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.