The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

A God alone can comprehend a God.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

Friendship's the wine of life.

Take God from nature, nothing great is left.