It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet..

Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge….

Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either….

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings..