A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.