Edward Young

“Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.”

“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”

“Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!”

“Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.”

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”

“The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in every heart.”

“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”

“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.”

“An undevout astronomer is mad.”

“By night an atheist half believes a God.”

“The man that blushes is not quite a brute.”

“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”

“All men think all men mortal, but themselves.”

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight.”

“A death-bed's a detector of the heart.”

“Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.”