For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.