Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.

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

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

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.