And Children Know, Instinctive Taught, The Friend

There Is A Vulgar Incredulity, Which In Historical Matters, As Well As In Those Of Religion, Finds It Easier To Doubt Than To Examine.

Ridicule Often Checks What Is Absurd, And Fully As Often Smothers That Which Is Noble.

We Do That In Our Zeal Our Calmer Moment Would Be Afraid To Answer.

Fortune May Raise Up Or Abuse The Ordinary Mortal, But The Sage And The Soldier Should Have Minds Beyond Her Control.

Where Lives The Man That Has Not Tried How Mirth Can Into Folly Glide, And Folly Into Sin!