Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.