A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Never find fault with the absent.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!