“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a…”

“Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?”

“That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom…”

“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.”

“He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering…”

“He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in…”