Virtue is no empty echo.
Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.
Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.
It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless
No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.