Whenever, At A Party, I Have Been

Only Deeds Give Strength To Life, Only Moderation Gives It Charm.

As Winter Strips The Leaves From Around Us, So That We May See The Distant Regions They Formerly Concealed, So Old Age Takes Away Our Enjoyments Only To Enlarge The Prospect Of The Coming Eternity.

If Self-knowledge Is The Road To Virtue, So Is Virtue Still More The Road To Self-knowledge.

What A Father Says To His Children Is Not Heard By The World, But It Will Be Heard By Posterity.

There Are So Many Tender And Holy Emotions Flying About In Our Inward World, Which, Like Angels, Can Never Assume The Body Of An Outward Act; So Many Rich And Lovely Flowers Spring Up Which Bear No Seed, That It Is A Happiness Poetry Was Invented, Which Receives Into Its Limbs All These Incorporeal Spirits, And The Perfume Of All These Flowers.