Date: 1746

"Man, in a storm of passions daily whirl'd, / Lives but the jest, and riddle of the world."

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"To true happiness the NOUS is blind"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As river's, by the sun's imbibing ray, / Are in summer quite exhal'd away" so to are "passions when confin'd to selfish love"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

Self-love may expand "like the generous vine" so that "Another's joy becomes as full as thine"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

"As, from the center of the lamp of day, / Beams after beams-diffusive sweetly play" so flows sweet joy from "the passions of the generous mind"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

Rebellion may lurk in the "faithless heart"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The rays of beauties may "wound the bleeding heart" and make "useless the medicable art"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The "heart of man" may be probed with the Muse's microscope

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

The soul may have "sallies, shifts, and eddies" that roll "like a troubled ocean"

— Ruffhead, James

Date: 1746

Man may hold "a heart of stone"

— Ruffhead, James