How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. [By E. Young.]... A New Edition, Corrected by the Author (ed. 1755)