Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
The soul of man was made to walk the skies.