How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Haste is a poor counselor

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising