Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

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.