Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.