Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.