Edward Young

“Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.”

“By night an atheist half-believes in God.”

“None think the great unhappy, but the great.”

“For me, happiness came from prayer to a kindly God, faith in a kindly God, love for my fellow man, and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast li...”

“The course of nature is the art of God.”

“None think the great unhappy but the great.”

“A foe to God was never true friend to man”

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

“They only babble who practise not reflection.”

“The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight.”

“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”

“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.”

“The man that makes a character, makes foes.”

“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”

“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”

“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.”

“Truth never was indebted to a lie.”

“A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”

“Wonder is involuntary praise.”