Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Calmness is always godlike.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.