When I Was As You Are Now,

Life Is A Progress From Want To Want, Not From Enjoyment To Enjoyment.

There Ambush Here Relentless Ruffians Lay, And Here The Fell Attorney Prowls For Prey.

The Truth Is That The Spectators Are Always In Their Senses, And Know, From The First Act To The Last, That The Stage Is Only A Stage, And That The Players Are Only Players.

A Poet, Naturalist, And Historian, Who Left Scarcely Any Style Of Writing Untouched, And Touched Nothing That He Did Not Adorn.

Nature Makes Us Poor Only When We Want Necessaries, But Custom Gives The Name Of Poverty To The Want Of Superfluities.