 A God all mercy is a God unjust. |
| Wise it is to comprehend the whole. |
| Wishing of all employments is the worst. |
| Those who build beneath the stars build too low. |
| Too low they build who build below the skies. |
| Less base the fear of death than fear of life. |
| The man that makes a character, makes foes. |
| Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. |
| By night an atheist half believes in a God. |
| How blessings brighten as they take their flight. |
| Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. |
| Wonder is involuntary praise. |
| A Christian is the highest style of man. |
| The course of Nature is the art of God. |
| There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. |
| Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. |
| One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. |
| The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. |
| Virtue alone has majesty in death. |
| All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. |
