The course of Nature is the art of God

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.