“The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.”

“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow”

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

“A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all its regions.A Dog starv’d at his Master’s GatePredicts the ruin of the State.A Horse misus’d upon the RoadCalls to Heaven for Human blood.Each outcry of the hunted HareA fiber from the Brain does tear.”

“When the stars threw down their spearsAnd watered heaven with their tears:Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?- The Tyger”

“And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.”

“The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”