Verse Satire Indeed Is Entirely Our Own.

God, That All-powerful Creator Of Nature And Architect Of The World, Has Impressed Man With No Character So Proper To Distinguish Him From Other Animals, As By The Faculty Of Speech.

The Soul Languishing In Obscurity Contracts A Kind Of Rust, Or Abandons Itself To The Chimera Of Presumption; For It Is Natural For It To Acquire Something, Even When Separated From Any One.

Everything That Has A Beginning Comes To An End.

Lately We Have Had Many Losses.

For The Mind Is All The Easier To Teach Before It Is Set.