“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.