A distracted existence leads us to no goal

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

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

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.