The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

“The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind he…”

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.”

“I have a dog of Blenheim birth,With fine long ears and full of mirth;And someti…”

“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.”