» Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
» O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
» The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
» Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
» What is reading, but silent conversation.
» No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
» Great men always pay deference to greater.
» I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
» Consult duty not events.
» Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.