See In What Peace A Christian Can

The Ways Of Heaven Are Dark And Intricate, Puzzled In Mazes, And Perplex'd With Errors; Our Understanding Traces Them In Vain, Lost And Bewilder'd In The Fruitless Search; Nor Sees With How Much Art The Windings Run, Nor Where The Regular Confusion Ends.

There Are Many More Shining Qualities In The Mind Of Man, But There Is None So Useful As Discretion.

I Will Indulge My Sorrows, And Give Way To All The Pangs And Fury Of Despair.

When A Man Becomes Familiar With His Goddess, She Quickly Sinks Into A Woman.

The Hours Of A Wise Man Are Lengthened By His Ideas, As Those Of A Fool Are By His Passions. The Time Of The One Is Long, Because He Does Not Know What To Do With It; So Is That Of The Other, Because He Distinguishes Every Moment Of It With Useful Or Amusing Thoughts--or, In Other Words, Because The One Is Always Wishing It Away, And The Other Always Enjoying It.