A Christian is the highest style of man.
Edward Young

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
Edward Young

A God all mercy is a God unjust.
Edward Young

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Edward Young

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Edward Young

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young

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

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young

By all means use some time to be alone.
Edward Young

By night an atheist half believes in a God.
Edward Young

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
Edward Young

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Edward Young

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Edward Young

None think the great unhappy, but the great.
Edward Young

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Edward Young

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Edward Young