At Thirty, Man Suspects Himself A Fool; Knows It At Forty, And Reforms His Plan.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ii, Line 112...
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night viii, Line 793...
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 775...
A Christian is the highest style of man.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line 788...
Man makes a death which Nature never made.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line 15...
Man wants but little, nor that little long.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line 118...
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night vii, Line 496...
T is impious in a good man to be sad.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night iv, Line 676...
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramid...