Religion Contracts The Circle Of Our Pleasures,

The Fear Of Death Often Proves Mortal.

It Happened Very Providentially, To The Honor Of The Christian Religion, That It Did Not Take Its Rise In The Dark Illiterate Ages Of The World, But At A Time When Arts And Sciences Were At Their Height.

There Is Not, In My Opinion, Anything More Mysterious In Nature Than This Instinct In Animals, Which Thus Rise Above Reason, And Yet Fall Infinitely Short Of It.

Nothing, Says Longinus, Can Be Great, The Contempt Of Which Is Great.

Waning Moons Their Settled Periods Keep, To Swell The Billows And Ferment The Deep.