Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

Failure is the test of greatness.

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!