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?

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.