Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
Friendship buys friendship.
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.