All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.

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 the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.