Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Encourage innocent amusement.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.