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.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

He sins against this life, who slights the next.

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.