A Master Passion Is The Love Of

From Powerful Causes Spring The Empiric's Gains, Man's Love Of Life, His Weakness, And His Pains; These First Induce Him The Vile Trash To Try, Then Lend His Name, That Other Men May Buy.

See Time Has Touched Me Gently In His Race, And Left No Odious Furrows In My Face.

There Is No Mind So Weak And Powerless As Not To Have Its Inclinations, And None So Guarded As To Be Without Its Prepossessions.

Good Is Done By Degrees.

Experience Finds Few Of The Scenes That Lively Hope Designs.