Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.