As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

The will of man is his happiness.

Appearance rules the world.

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.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.