How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.

Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.