Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.