There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Life like an empty dream flits by.

The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters