Thus God And Nature Linked The Gen'ral

Th' Unwilling Gratitude Of Base Mankind!

Judge Not Of Actions By Their Mere Effect; Dive To The Center, And The Cause Detect. Great Deeds From Meanest Springs May Take Their Course, And Smallest Virtues From A Mighty Source.

One Thought Of Thee Puts All The Pomp To Flight; Priests, Tapers, Temples, Swim Before My Sight.

Whoe'er He Be That Tells My Faults, I Hate Him Mortally.

While Pensive Poets Painful Vigils Keep, Sleepless Themselves, To Give Their Readers Sleep.