Glory, Built On Selfish Principles, Is Shame

He That Runs May Read.

Thus Happiness Depends, As Nature Shows, Less On Exterior Things Than Most Suppose.

Is Base In Kind, And Born To Be A Slave.

God Forbid That Judges Upon Their Oath Should Make Resolutions To Enlarge Jurisdiction.

Twere Better To Be Born A Stone Of Ruder Shape, And Feeling None, Than With A Tenderness Like Mine And Sensibilities So Fine! Ah, Hapless Wretch! Condemn'd To Dwell Forever In My Native Shell, Ordained To Move When Others Please, Not For My Own Content Or Ease; But Toss'd And Buffeted About, Now In The Water And Now Out.