The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
I lived to write, and wrote to live.
Gentle to others, to himself severe.
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.