O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.