Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

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

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

God made the country, and man made the town.

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.

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.