To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.