The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.