Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.