All That Philosophy Can Teach Is To

Philosophy ... Should Not Pretend To Increase Our Present Stock, But Make Us Economists Of What We Are Possessed Of.

Who Pepper'd The Highest Was Surest To Please.

They Say Women And Music Should Never Be Dated.

All The Bloomy Flush Of Life Is Fled.

Is It That Nature, Attentive To The Preservation Of Mankind, Increases Our Wishes To Live, While She Lessens Our Enjoyments, And As She Robs The Senses Of Every Pleasure, Equips Imag-ination In The Spoil?