To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.