When A Man Is Tried

In The Motive Lies The Good Or Ill.

It Is Not Easy To Surround Life With Any Circumstances In Which Youth Will Not Be Delightful.

An Age That Melts In Unperceiv'd Decay, And Glides In Modest Innocence Away.

The Gratification Of Curiosity Rather Frees Us From Uneasiness Than Confers Pleasure; We Are More Pained By Ignorance Than Delighted By Instruction. Curiosity Is The Thirst Of The Soul; It Inflames And Torments Us, And Makes Us Taste Every Thing With Joy, However Otherwise Insipid, By Which It May Be Quenched.

In His Comic Scenes, Shakespeare Seems To Produce, Without Labor, What No Labor Can Improve.