Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.