Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.