The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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.
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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.
Grief is itself a med'cine.
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Such stuff the world is made of.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
What is there in the vale of life half so delightful as a wife when friendship, love and peace combine to stamp the marriage bond divine?
O, popular applause! What heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
He has no hope who never had a fear.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
