Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.