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.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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.

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain