It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
