Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.

The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.