Merit Challenges Envy.

I Strongly Wish For What I Faintly Hope; Like The Daydreams Of Melancholy Men, I Think And Think In Things Impossible, Yet Love To Wander In That Golden Maze.

The World To Bacon Does Not Only Owe It's Present Knowledge, But Its Future Too.

How Easy 'tis, When Destiny Proves Kind, With Full-spread Sails To Run Before The Wind!

Repartee Is The Soul Of Conversation.

Virtue Without Success Is A Fair Picture Shown By An Ill Light; But Lucky Men Are Favorites Of Heaven; All Own The Chief, When Fortune Owns The Cause.