“Order is heaven's first law.”

“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.”

“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”

“All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!”

“What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.”

“So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try,Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky;Th'eternal snows appear already past,And the first clouds and mountains seem the last:But those attain'd, we tremble to surveyThe growing labours of the lengthen'd way;Th'increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes,Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!”

“Vice is a monster of so frightful mienAs to be hated needs but to be seen;Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”