Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.