One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.