Soon As The Evening Shades Prevail, The

A Man’s First Care Should Be To Avoid The Reproaches Of His Own Heart.

Contentment Produces, In Some Measure, All Those Effects Which The Alchemist Usually Ascribes To What He Calls The Philosopher's Stone; And If It Does Not Bring Riches, It Does The Same Thing By Banishing The Desire For Them.

Beauty Soon Grows Familiar To The Lover, Fades In His Eye, And Palls Upon The Sense.

What I Spent I Lost; What I Possessed Is Left To Others; What I Gave Away Remains With Me.

There Is No Passion That Is Not Finely Expressed In Those Parts Of The Inspired Writings Which Are Proper For Divine Songs And Anthems.