Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

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

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.