People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.