Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.