 Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. |
| Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. |
| Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. |
| God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. |
| It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. |
| Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. |
| A fool must now and then be right, by chance. |
| The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl. |
| Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. |
| No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. |
| No one was ever scolded out of their sins. |
| The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. |
| 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. |
| Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. |
| Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. |
| Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. |
| Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. |
| They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. |
| Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. |
| 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. |
