A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

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 great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.