Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.