Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

All nature wears one universal grin.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.