Who lives content with little possesses everything.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.