For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

The enormous faith of many made for one.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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?

When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.