It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.