Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.