Nature is harmony in discord.
Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.
I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.