"There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at…"

"This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun."

"How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes th…"

"'Tis not for mortals always to be blest."

"Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preac…"

"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the pl…"

"Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought Of being scourged, Were there but hope that this defiling sin Which mar…"

"O to be like my Lord! Yet must I be Mine own self too, And to the nature He bestowed on me Be frankly true.The olive …"

"The next natural order is doubtless Senile Insanity, occasionally commencing in the form of Mania, more frequently in…"

"I would strongly press upon you this view of the subject, — one to which I have already referred, that this is, in fa…"