Quotes from Edward Young

A Christian is the highest style of man.

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

The course of nature is the art of God.

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.

By night an atheist half-believes in God.

A God alone can comprehend a God.

Take God from nature, nothing great is left.

A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

A foe to God was never true friend to man

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion.