Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind..

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room..

The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too….

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….

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all..

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of….

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray..

The monster London laugh at me..

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

The present is an eternal now..

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last..

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion..

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

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!.

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain….

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high..

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders..

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

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

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!.