Self-love Is The Most Inhibited

Alas, That Love, Whose View Is Muffled Still, Should Without Eyes See Pathways To His Will!

Superfluity Comes Sooner By White Hairs, But Competency Lives Longer.

Foul Whisp'rings Are Abroad.

The Thorny Point Of Bare Distress Hath Ta'en From Me The Show Of Smooth Civility; Yet Am I Inland Bred And Know Some Nurture.

What Can Be Happier Than For A Man, Conscious Of Virtuous Acts, And Content With Liberty, To Despise All Human Affairs?