If the heart beguiles itself in its choice [of a wife], and imagination will give excellencies which are not the portion of flesh ...and blood:Mwhen the dream is over, and we awake in the morning, it matters little whether 'tis Rachael or Leah,--be the object what it will, as it must be on the earthly side ... of perfection,--it will fall short of the work of fancy, whose existence is in the clouds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I pity the men whose natural pleasures are burthens, and who fly from joy ... as if it was really an evil in itself.... Poor unfor...tunate creature that he is! as if the causes of anguish in the heart were not enow--but he must fill up the measure, with those of caprice; and not only walk in a vain shadow,--but disquiet himself in vain too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lame as I am, I take the prey, Hell, earth, and sin with ease o'ercome;... I leap for joy, pursue my way, And as a bounding hart fly home, Through all eternity to prove, Thy nature, and Thy name is Love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »