“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”

“Can I see anothers woe,And not be in sorrow too.Can I see anothers grief,And not seek for kind relief.- On Anothers Sorrow”

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

“I will not reason and compare my business is to create.”

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

“Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.”

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”