Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.