You can never plan the future by the past.
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.