God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.