"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures."
- Joseph Addison
"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."
"A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer."
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."
"Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable."
"Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion."
"Colors speak all languages."
"Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency."
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."
"The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness."