An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty

Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.