Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.