Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.