If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's notions and inclinations he possesses this is an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more that man...
Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
No place so scared from such frops is barred Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard
False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel t...
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy...
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Light quirks of music broken and uneven Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk at least before they dance.
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.