Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David MalletO grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.
David MalletA sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
David Mallet