We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

"We are always doing," says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us

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 their proper figures.

The Hand that made us is divine.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.