The Muses Crown Virtue When Fortune Refuses

Will An Intelligent Spectator Not Admire The Prodigeous Structures Of Stone-henge Because He Does Not Know By What Law Of Mechanics They Were Raised?

I Endeavor To Be Wise When I Cannot Be Merry, Easy When I Cannot Be Glad, Content With What Cannot Be Mended, And Patient When There Be No Redress.

I Often Think That Those People Are The Happiest Who Know Nothing At All Of The World, And Sitting In The Little Empire Of The Fireside, Where There Is No Contention Or Cabal, Think We Are In A Golden Age Of Existance.

I Always Wish To Find Great Virtues Where There Are Great Talents, And To Love What I Admire.

The Outrages Of The Powerful, The Insolence Of The Rich, Scorn Of The Proud, And Malice Of The Uncharitable, All Beating Against The Broken Spirit Of The Unfortunate.