“Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.”

“We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design but destiny.”

“There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.”

“The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harves...”

“Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined.”

“Who knows nothing base Fears nothing known.”

“What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our inv...”

“Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.”

“A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.”