Neither the praise nor the blame is our own..

To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish bu….

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create..

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despi….

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without..

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure..

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain..

Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last..

Life is an incurable disease..

Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent pas….

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, an….

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy..

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race..

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with ve….

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on..

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends..

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear a….

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right..

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live..

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, whi….