He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.