Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year . . The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.

- Samuel Garth

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

- Samuel Garth

Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

- Samuel Garth

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they…

- Samuel Garth

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

- Samuel Garth

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

- Samuel Garth

I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

- Samuel Garth

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

- Samuel Garth