I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.