Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.