A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
To die is landing on some distant shore.