To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.