O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

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