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!

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

In indolent vacuity of thought.