Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.