“Look round the habitable world, how fewKnow their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!”

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”

“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.”

“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear.To be we know not what, we know not where.”

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,But good men starve for want of impudence.”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

“If others in the same Glass better see 'Tis for Themselves they look, but not for me: For my Salvation must its Doom receive Not from what others, but what I believe.”