God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.