“Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.”

“Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,His only answer was, a blameless life.”

“I am monarch of all I survey,My right there is none to dispute,From the centre all round to the sea,I am lord of the fowl and the brute.O solitude! Where are the charmsThat sages have seen in thy face?Better dwell in the midst of alarms,Than reign in this horrible place.”

“Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.”

“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.”

“Their tameness is shocking to me.”

“God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs”