In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

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!