There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Friends are proved by adversity.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.